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Thats actually a really good idea. I wonder what would be next? Most of Yahoo's properties seem be be neglected at the moment, but what about Google? Google News perhaps?
Probably Google Alerts. It's rather niche but people who use it absolutely rely on it. But the VC-funded Mention seems poised to take that one.
"I had been preparing for a black swan event like this for the last four years since I began NewsBlur." And then the black swan event comes. And then fire everywhere.
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Try http://rssident.com I am working on making the UI more user friendly and adding OPML import/export. It's going to be supported by advertising with a subscription service for premium features and no ads.
I was attracted by the basic looking design, but I can't work out how to do anything. Why am I subscribed to a huge number of random feeds? How do I get rid of them? How do I view the content of the feed instead of opening a new window on the original site?
Still working on the UI to show the article content and links to attached files.
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Most blog providers support pubsubhubbub(the worst protocol name ever). It allows you to avoid polling, by having the content producer notify you of feed updates.
Except that, even with PSHB, you get polling. I wrote about it here http://www.dp.cx/blog/pubsubhubbub-and-polling.html#.UUcPWLp...
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" Congratulations. This is why I love SaaS. 6 figures revenue in a couple of days, and I can only imagine how much more will be made in the next 3 months... and beyond. But it's not a once-off payday. This is recurring. 7 figure annual income is yours, Sam. People slave away for decades trying to reach a tiny fraction of this amount. Put it to good use, brother.
Those couple of days took 4 years of preparation.
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I agree it's not a 1-to-1 analogy, but the idea is the same. Knowing you're free to come back to Lotus by using Excel frees you from the chicken-and-egg constraint of waiting until your entire office is on Excel. With NewsBlur you know that you can host your own instance if your dependency on the newsblur.com hosted instance breaks.
I see what you mean by that, but open-sourcing all your software instead of just having an export function seems risky to me. In our area of business, our features get copied really quickly.
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You can do this currently. My feeds were quickly ingested and everything worked great.
In case you wonder why you are getting downvoted: He is asking about a compatible API for 3rd party apps (Reeder, gReader and so on) to be able to connect to newsblur just by changing the API URL.
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3400 is only the number of new paying users in the last 24 hours. The amount of annual income from this product will now end with "million".
revenue, not income - he's going to have high server costs now and if he wants to keep this scaling up, i suspect he'll need to bring on another person soon. at the very least, a customer service rep. still should easily net him a nice recurring six figure salary.
He reaches $1 million at just over 40k paid users.
Factor in the userbase he's already been building for 4 years, the hundreds of thousands of Google Readers currently leaving, the millions that will need to find a replacement before July, and the last-minute movers on July 1st.
I don't think server costs and a couple of employees will put him below a 7 figure income.
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" Congratulations. This is why I love SaaS. 6 figures revenue in a couple of days, and I can only imagine how much more will be made in the next 3 months... and beyond. But it's not a once-off payday. This is recurring. 7 figure annual income is yours, Sam. People slave away for decades trying to reach a tiny fraction of this amount. Put it to good use, brother.
"6 figures revenue in a couple of days" Those couple of days took 4 years of preparation.